From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 19 16: 4:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE685116E1 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02851; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:04:23 GMT Message-ID: <36CDFC06.F48222B7@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:04:22 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Angrick Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: server stress testing References: <1.5.4.32.19990219214218.008ee354@netdirect.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andy Angrick wrote: > > Does anyone know of any programs available that would stress-test a new > server? I've just built a new FreeBSD box and I want to make sure its stable > before I put it to work. I've seen programs on the DOS side that would write > to ram, randomly seek the harddrive, video testing, etc...all in a loop that > you could run for a few hours. Most people just do a very largely parallel makeworld on it, even if your going to bin the results, it's pretty stressfull... See the FreeBSD site for details on how to build the world :) -Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message